African trypanosomiasis - The wrath of Tsese fly

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Alarmingly, official statistics have recorded that the African sleeping sickness is known to kill more than 30, 000 people annually. African sleeping sickness is an infectious disease that is widespread south of the Sahara Desert. According to medical researchers, there are more that sixty million people residing in tropical Africa who run the risk of becoming infected with the disease every day . Yet, only four million of them are monitored for the disease by disease-control authorities! In fact, the African sleeping sickness is caused by the Tsetse flies which are known to transmit single-celled parasite belonging to the species trypanosoma...

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• Assisted by: Edward R. Miller-Jones (Editor), Edwar R Miller-Jones (Editor)
• Publisher: FastBook Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2013
• EAN: 9786130147952
• ISBN: 978-613-0-14795-2
• No. of pages: 152
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine